UK Copyright Group Tells Cinemas to Ban Laptops

Sockatume writes "Cinema chain Cineworld now has a policy banning anyone from carrying a laptop into a theatre, even if it is not used. The management claims that this is an anti-piracy move on the advice of the Federation Against Copyright Theft, the much-mocked source of all kinds of dubious anti-piracy statements. When it was pointed out that the laptop had no camera, the management made a temporary exception. For customers, the message is clear: leave your laptop in the car. For pirates, the message is clear: there is more money to be made slinking around cinema car parks looking for laptop bags."

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Obama: broken promises, empty rhetoric

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6310255/Barack-Obamas-Top-10-unfulfilled-pledges.html

Here's 10 examples of Obama's brand of hope and change. I would like to add #11: During his campaign he repeatedly stated that Afghanistan was a war of necessity, and Iraq was a war of choice. Now he's back-pedaling on yet another central campaign issue. Sorry Obama, banning Fox News from the White House will not make what's left of the free press stop pointing out the vast differences between your rhetoric and what you actually deliver. A man with such thin skin should really consider a career other than politics.